Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1937, Page 79

ST N Avgust 8, 1937 haunting her, did come into the open. She was with Kenneth Taylor, walking out of the Ritz-Imperial mo- tion picture theater, when she encoun- tered them clustered outside the door. ““Hi, babe!” they called to her with tough gestures of greeting. Isabelle looked through them. She caught Kenny’s arm and by her own quickened pace urged him into a fast walk down the sidewalk to his parked rogadster. When they reached it she dared a look over her shoulder. The boys had not followed her. As she nestled beside Kenneth on the car’s leather seat, she lifted her gaze to his—and he smiled. Oh, thank heaven! He hadn’t noticed those demons; or if he had, he had thought they were speaking to some- body else in the crowd. “Babe!” They had called her that! And they hadn’t been trying to tor- ment her in an aimless, silly way. Oh, no! She could tell. That grinning look they’d had on their faces meant some- thing fiendish in store for her. She shivered, feeling as if a mob of gdngsters had “‘put the finger’’ on her; at any moment the blow might fall. The following afternoon she found out what the blow was to be. She was sitting on the Cummings front porch with Kenneth, Jim Rainey, Wally Bowen and Clifford Reed. They were talking about the Charity Bazaar when Buster and his gang, fairly dripping out of his flivver, came to a stop before the house. ‘“Hi, babe! Booth Moderne!’ They laughed uproariously. ‘“We'll be see- ing yuh!” Isabelle, forcing a smile to stay on her lips, ignored them. So that was it! They were going to the Bazaar and hang around her booth all evening. ‘They knew it wouldn’t take them long THIS WEEK - Child Viper to drive away everybody but old grown people. Nobody else could stand their smirking and swaggering. A silence had fallen on the porch. Kenneth Taylor arose and started down the steps. ““You kids take a powder,” he said. He was too much of a gentleman to bring in her name before these squirts. “Take a powder yourself” they yelled back at him. ‘“You're not going to move on?” Kenneth asked quietly. Isabelle simply adored him like this. So quiet and polite but so masterful for all his good manners. The flivver did not budge. Buster called: “It’s a free street. We can stay here as long as we please. And what you going to do about it?”’ This was the supreme insult. Wally, Here's Why: EAN GILDERSLEEVE of Barnard has announced that this year’s crop of college grad- uates is more interested in homes than in careers. Undoubtedly one reason is that more of the “aver- age’’ girls of the community are going to college than ever before, asindicated by the fact that college girls have in- creased a thousand per cent since 1900. The second reason is the general trend toward matrimony among Amer- ican women as a whole. The increase, between 1920 and 1930, in the per- Continved from preceding poge Jim and Clifford jumped to their feet and joined Kenneth. They started to- ward the car, Wally bellowing: “Why, you five-cent pieces! I'll turn you over my knee and give you what’s good for you till you look like abunchof beets!” Buster held the flivver until the last second of safety, then shot it away from the curb, he and his friends howl- ing gleefully: ‘“‘Booth Moderne — oh boy! Bootk M’derne, Isabelle”” Their laughter floated back, shrill and taunting. To Isabelle it sounded like the mirth of the very fiends of Hades. For she realized that, once they made up their minds to do something, nobody could control Buster and his gang. The Charity Bazaar could never be a féte now. It couldn’t be even a Bazaar. It was an evening of horror by IRA S. WILE, M.D. centage of married women was quite marked, the marriage rate making its biggest jump in the ages 20 to 24, the years of college life. It still seems to be true, though, that the more education a girl has, the less likely she is to marry. Of course we have no complete figures, ~but certain surveys which have been made indicate that only 389, of wom- en physicians—all of whom are college graduates — are married. The same surveys show that 359 of women educators, of whom a little over 759, and humiliation awaiting her. She couldn’t go. She couldn’t! Yet she couldn’t find an excuse that would make sense to Mrs. Fallon; or — more important — to her mother and father who had given her ten dollars over the absolute limit set for the white eve- ning dress hanging in her closet. She was trapped; that was what she was! Trapped like a mouse in a trap! The day before the Bazaar, Isabelle went drearily to Susie Clayton’s to give her opinion of the dress Susie planned to wear in the Flower Bower. Isabelle was too unhappy to note that she did not once hear the automobile horn or see Buster and his gang on the way to The Tower Apartments where the Claytons lived. Isabelle found Susie trailing in pink More college girls are getting married are college graduates, have married. For those who are interested in speculating about their own marriage future, there are also interesting sta- tistics which show. the relation be- tween occupation and the age when the knot is usually tied. These give the average marriage age for unskilled women workers as a little over 18. Skilled workers wait about a year longer; clerks tend to marry when they are a little over 21, and profes- sional women when they are between 23 and 24. taffeta through the rooms, her arms upraised as she begged to be told why she had been born. Life was not worth living. It was enough to be in the Flower Bower, without this last dev- astation of having her dress turn out all wrong. Little, Isabelle thought bitterly, did Susie know about a life not worth living. Trying to comfort this sheltered girl who knew not what blows life could deal a person, Isabelle said to Susie: i J “I think the dress is lovely.” “Lovely!” Susie shuddered. “With this bunchiness, those tucks, these —" The colored maid called Susie to the telephone and she swept out of the room. Isabelle dropped down on the window seat. The Clayton apartment was on the second floor and she could hear plainly what went on in the street. Suddenly she stiffened. That horn — squawking three times. Oh, how had they found her here? Couldn’t they leave her alone for a minute? She crumpled, sobbing, into a small heap of woe. . The hormn sounded again, a long summoning blast. Then Isabelle heard Buster calling to somebody: “‘We lost the sock.” Isabelle straightened up. Buster evidently hadn’t come here after her. This small relief stopped her sobbing. She peered through the curtains down into the street. 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